WEBVTT AFTER A CRASH SHUT DOWN I-275 IN TAYLOR MILL. GOOD EVENING. I’M SHEREE PAOLELLO. THE CRASH HAPPENED, JUST BEFORE 6:30, NEAR THE CAMPBELL COUNTY LINE. AS YOU CAN SEE, THROUGH OUR LIVE TRAFFIC CAMERA, IT’S STILL AN ACTIVE SCENE. POLICE SAY, A DRIVER HAD BROKEN DOWN, AND A SECOND DRIVER COLLIDED WITH THE CAR. WLWT NEWS 5’S DAN GRIFFIN IS LIVE WITH THE LATEST. DAN: TAYLOR MILL POLICE SAY THIS ALL HAPPENED AROUND 6:30 TONIGHT AND ARE TREATING THIS AS A CRIME. ANOTHER CAR PLOWED INTO IT. FIVE PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED. ♪WE ARE TOLD THE TOLBERT WAS KILLED. THE STRIKING CAR MIGHT HAVE SWERVED TO STOP TRAFFIC. THE CHILD WAS LIKELY NOT IN HIS SEATBELT BECAUSE THE MOTHER WAS PLANNING ON EXITING THE CAR WITH THE TOP THERE. >> STAY SEATBELTED. DON’T GET OUT. YOU KNOW, YOUR FIRST INCLINATION IS TO GET OUT, WHAT’S GOING ON WITH MY CAR? CHECK IT. I’VE BEEN HERE FOR 30 YEARS, AND THIS STRETCH IS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS STRETCHES IN OUR CITY. DA TO MAKE ALL OF THIS WORSE, THE MOTHER HAD CALLED THE FATHER TO HELP THEM WITH THEIR BROKEN DOWN CAR. HE ARRIVED AT THE SCENE AFTER THIS PLAYED OUT. HE IS AT THE HOSPITAL WITH HIS WIFE TONIGHT. THEY ARE CONSULTING THE COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEYS IN CAMPBELL AND KENTON COUNTY IN

A toddler is dead after a crash on I-275 near Taylor Mill Road in Kentucky.

Taylor Mill police said a vehicle was broken down on the eastbound side of the road near the Licking River Wednesday evening. That vehicle was occupied by a mother and her young child, police said.

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Around 6:30 p.m., while the woman was waiting for her husband to arrive for assistance, her vehicle was struck by another passing vehicle.

"We have some initial accusations that traffic may have suddenly stopped and the striking vehicle may have tried to take evasion action to the right and strikes the vehicle from the rear," Taylor Mill police chief Steve Knauf said.

Police said the toddler died as a result of the crash.

Authorities said there were three people in the passing vehicle.

Some victims of the crash were taken to UC Medical Center and others to St. Elizabeth in Fort Thomas.

"If you break down, stay in that car, stay in that cocoon, stay seat-belted. Don't get out. You know, your first inclination is you get out, 'What's going on here?' Look at my car. I've been here 30 years and this stretch is one of the most dangerous stretches in our city," Knauf said.